Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

For thou are my rock and my fortress. Therefore for thy name's sake lead me and guide me.

New American Standard Bible

For You are my rock and my fortress;
For Your name’s sake You will lead me and guide me.

King James Version

For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.

Holman Bible

For You are my rock and my fortress;
You lead and guide me
because of Your name.

International Standard Version

For you are my rock and my fortress; for the sake of your name guide me and lead me.

American Standard Version

For thou art my rock and my fortress; Therefore for thy name's sake lead me and guide me.

Amplified


Yes, You are my rock and my fortress;
For Your name’s sake You will lead me and guide me.

Bible in Basic English

For you are my Rock and my strong tower; go in front of me and be my guide, because of your name.

Darby Translation

For thou art my rock and my fortress; and, for thy name's sake, thou wilt lead me and guide me.

Julia Smith Translation

For thou my rock and my fortress; and for sake of thy name thou wilt guide me, and thou wilt protect me.

King James 2000

For you are my rock and my fortress; therefore for your name's sake lead me, and guide me.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For you [are] my rock and my fortress. So, for the sake of your name, lead me and guide me.

Modern King James verseion

For You are my rock and my fortress; and for Your name's sake lead me and guide me.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For thou art my stronghold and my castle: be thou also my guide, and lead me for thy name's sake.

NET Bible

For you are my high ridge and my stronghold; for the sake of your own reputation you lead me and guide me.

New Heart English Bible

For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me.

The Emphasized Bible

Because, my mountain crag and my stronghold, thou art, Therefore, for the sake of thine own Name, wilt thou lead me and guide me?

Webster

For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.

World English Bible

For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me.

Youngs Literal Translation

For my rock and my bulwark art Thou, For Thy name's sake lead me and tend me.

References

Easton

Morish

Watsons

Images Psalm 31:3

Prayers for Psalm 31:3

Context Readings

A Plea For Protection

2 Bow down thine ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be thou to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me. 3 For thou are my rock and my fortress. Therefore for thy name's sake lead me and guide me. 4 Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for thou are my stronghold.


Cross References

Psalm 25:11

For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

Joshua 7:9

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will encompass us around, and cut off our name from the earth, and what will thou do for thy great name?

Nehemiah 9:12

Moreover in a pillar of cloud thou led them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.

Nehemiah 9:19

yet thou in thy manifold mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud did not depart from over them by day to lead them in the way, neither the pillar of fire by night to show them light, and the way in which

Psalm 18:2

LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

Psalm 23:2-3

He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.

Psalm 25:5

Guide me in thy truth, and teach me. For thou are the God of my salvation. For thee do I wait all the day.

Psalm 25:9

The meek he will guide in justice, and the meek he will teach his way.

Psalm 43:3

O send out thy light and thy truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

Psalm 79:9

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name. And deliver us, and forgive our sins, for thy name's sake.

Psalm 139:24

and see if there is any wicked way in me. And lead me in the way everlasting.

Psalm 143:10-11

Teach me to do thy will, for thou are my God. Thy Spirit is good, lead me in the land of uprightness.

Isaiah 49:10

They shall not hunger nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor sun smite them. For he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them even by springs of water.

Jeremiah 14:7

Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name's sake, O LORD. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against thee.

Ezekiel 36:21-22

But I had regard for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went.

Luke 1:79

to give light to those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into a way of peace.

John 16:13

However when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. For he will not speak from himself, but as many things as he may hear, he will speak. And he will report to you the things that are coming.

Ephesians 1:12

For us to be for appreciation of his glory, men who have first hoped in the Christ.

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